The ISKCON Toronto Blog and Toronto’s Hare Krishna Temple would like to wish you and your family a happy holiday season. We hope this happy time of year brings smiles and spirituality into everyone’s lives! You are welcome to come visit the temple during the holiday season as it will be open every day! We also hope to see everyone …
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Sunday Feast Highlights – Dec 21, 2008
The City of Toronto was hit with another snow storm today and so the Sunday Feast had a smaller crowd. That being said, the program was still wonderful and was capped off with an amazing kirtan by HH Bhaktimarga Swami. Here is a recording of Maharaj leading the 8:00pm arati. Hare Krishna! The recordings from our weekly live web broadcasts …
Deity Darshan: Sunday, December 21, 2008
Ringing in the New Year “Hare Krsna” Style!
The Hare Krishnas certainly know how to party! When we get together, we sing our hearts out, beat drums like there is no tomorrow, dance euphorically and create a spritually intoxicating atmosphere which surely brings a smile to even the most grumpy of faces. So why mess with a good formula? To help close off 2008 and to usher in …
Food for Life at Toronto Homeless Shelters
On December 14th, Krishna Club, a York University-based outreach program, facilitated another food for life distribution program to downtown homeless shelters. Volunteers prepped, cooked and packed 100 bio-degradable take-out containers with vegetarian meals (prasadam) and then transported everything downtown and personally handed meals out to the homeless on the street. While some of the volunteers distributed food containers, other devotees …
Deity Darshan: Sunday December 14, 2008
*Special thanks to Mother Demi for this Sunday’s pictures
Remember, Sunday Feasts Now Live!
Just as a little reminder, you can now enjoy ISKCON Toronto’s famous Sunday Feasts through our new live broadcast! We will be broadcasting our Sunday Feasts live every Sunday. The broadcasts will start every Sunday between 6:00pm or 6:30pm and end around 8:30pm (all times EST). Please note that during our Free Vegetarian Feast (7:20pm to 8:00pm) the audio will …
Cooking for Krishna – Episode Two
The ISKCON Toronto Blog is happy to present Episode Two of Cooking with Krishna. Cooking for Krishna is a regular video series which shows how to create sumptuous vegetarian meals! Once made, these preparations are offered to Lord Krsna and become “prasadam”, or sanctified food! In this second episode, Shashank Parkhi, a trained chef and member of our ISKCON Toronto …
Gita Jayanti Celebrated in Dramatic Fashion!
It was a nice, intimate group of devotees that gathered to celebrate the day which is marked as the anniversary when Lord Krsna spoke the Bhagavad Gita over 5,000 years ago. The tradition at ISKCON Toronto is to read the entire Gita (all 700 verses) as a group and that is how the festivities began. At 5:00pm sharp, the assembled …
Gita Jayanti Celebrations on Monday!
Gita Jayanti will be celebrated Monday evening, December 8th, at ISKCON Toronto and a warm invitation goes out to everyone join us for the festivities. Every year, as a tradition, we read the entire Gita (approximately 700 verses) over a two and a half hour span. This year, the program will begin at 5:00pm with the reading and will be …